The post of Governors-General of Korea (Korean: 조선총독, Hanja: 朝鮮總督, Japanese: 朝鮮総督) served as the chief representative of the Japanese government in Korea while it was held as the Japanese colony of Chōsen from 1910 to 1945. The seat of the Japanese colonial government was the Japanese General Government Building, completed in 1926. According to Korean legal thought, de jure sovereignty was not transferred to the Emperor of Japan with the forced end of the Joseon dynasty, such that the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea became the de jure government of the Korean people from 1919 to 1948, and the foreign governors merely exercised de facto rule for the period. After the Japanese defeat in World War II Korea came under US and Soviet control. After 1948, power passed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.
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Governors-General
- Count Terauchi Masatake (1910–1916)
- Count Yoshimichi Hasegawa (1916–1919)
- Viscount Makoto Saito (1919–1927)
- General Kazushige Ugaki (1927)
- General Hanzo Yamanashi (1927–1929)
- Viscount Saito (second time 1929–1931)
- General Kazushige Ugaki (second time 1931–1936)
- General Jiro Minami (1936–1942)
- Kuniaki Koiso (1942–1944)
- Nobuyuki Abe (1944–1945)
Residents-General
From 1905 to 1910 Korea was a protectorate of Japan and Japan was represented by a Resident-General.
- Prince Ito Hirobumi (1905–1909)
- Baron Sone Arasuke(1909)
- Count Terauchi Masatake (1909–1910)
See also
- Governor-General of Taiwan
- Rulers of Korea
- List of Korea-related topics
- Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea
- Japanese militarism
- Japanese nationalism
- Anti-Japanese sentiment
- Sōshi-kaimei
- Governor-General of Karafuto
- Governor-General of Kwantung
- Governor-General of South Pacific Mandate
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